The paper proposes to contribute to the growing literature on the practise and significance of multifunctional agriculture, drawing on an empirical study of 50 farms located in Central Italy and Sicily. The paper intends, in particular, to identify and analyse the ways that multifunctionality...

O artigo analisa as transformações que atingem o meio rural gaúcho nos cinco primeiros anos do século XXI, demonstrando o impacto da desagrarização e da pluriatividade a partir das informações fornecidas pela Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio. Com base nos dados disponíveis é...

The diversity in the Danish organic farming sector in terms of patterns of human resource use is investigated. Based on the total time allocated to agricultural activities almost half the organic farms are full-time farms, one third part-time and the rest hobby farms. Spouses contribute little...

One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...

One of the common strategies in rural development programmes is to support the adoption of new on-farm activities. The rationale behind this is that farm diversification is a way to assure an appropriate level of income for the farmers. Through interviews with 49 relatively small farmers, the...

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

The diversification of economic activities in rural areas is a topical issue and can be a fundamental strategy for the development of the Romanian rural area, because it can produce a beneficial effect from an economic point of view, by increasing the income of the rural population.The Romanian...